The Vanderbilt Regatta
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The Vanderbilt Regatta 150 of the 1,591 entering first-year students participated in this year’s Squirrel Camp, one of four DoreWays pre-orientation programs offered at Vanderbilt. The team-building pro- grams included the Regatta where students constructed a craft and worked together to keep it afloat while racing other teams. Photo by Neil Brake. 4 1,000Wo r d s Spr07_pg4-9_final 7/22/07 3:30 PM Page 4 Contributors e u s s i DoreWays 7 s 0 a e 0 d 2 i g g n n i Editor Charles Euchner i r From the Editor g From the Reader p GayNelle Doll n S Charles Euchner, BA’82, is a writer in New Haven, Conn. He served as execu- a h e c h When ’Dores Were Undefeated Art Director and Designer tive director of the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston at Harvard x t Photo Synthesis e r Donna DeVore Pritchett r o University until 2004, when he left to focus on writing. In 2006 he published Gary Gerson’s o excellent and refreshing f F his spring Vanderbilt Magazine’s office moved from the Baker Building on The Last Nine Innings (named one of the best baseball books of the year by article concerning his experience on the 1981 Editorial m 21st Avenue to the Loews Vanderbilt Complex a block away on West End u Sports Illustrated) and Little League, Big Dreams. For most of his career, r football team (“A Pipsqueak Among Giants,” o Arts & Culture Editor Avenue. It was the excuse we needed to clean house and purge ourselves of f Euchner has focused on urban politics and policy. He is the author of Playing the Field Fall 2006 issue, p. 40) brought back memo- Bonnie Arant Ertelt, BS’81 thousands of old photos dating back to The Leisure Suit Age. We gave them a A (1994), Extraordinary Politics (1996), Urban Policy Reconsidered (2003), and Governing ries of the undefeated “V-Model” 11 of 1943. Class Notes and Sports Editor T good home in Vanderbilt’s Heard Library Photographic Archives, bless them. Greater Boston (2002). In the fall of 1943, the Southeastern Con- Nelson Bryan, BA’73 All those forgotten photos got me to thinking what it would be like to work as a pro- ference was inactive—put on hold because fessional photographer, knowing most of the shots you capture will never see their way Science Editor Elaine Lacour Brown of the Second World War. However, there David F. Salisbury into print. Once the photo shoot is over, the photographer pretty much loses control. V Elaine Lacour Brown, BS’70, MA’71,EdS’73, is director of outreach services was enough interest on campus to form a Nowadays the photos you see in Vanderbilt Magazine are most often the work of and admissions at the Tennessee School for the Blind. Located in Nashville, the “fun” team coached by Herc Alley and Doby Production and Design Neil Brake or Daniel Dubois. These terrific university photographers provide images school serves K–12 students. Brown has taught deaf, blind and multiple- Bartling. This team played such power- Production and Advertising Manager not only for Vanderbilt Magazine, but for hundreds of other university periodicals, Web disability students at the school for 28 years. She also plays a pivotal role in the houses as Milligan, TPI, Carson-Newman Phillip B. Tucker sites, brochures, posters and more. They don’t have the luxury of specializing in por- school’s Preschool Summer Evaluation Program, reaching children with visual challenges as and Fort Campbell, Ky., and ended the sea- traiture or campus scenes or action shots— Assistant Designers early as possible in their educational progress. son without a loss. Chris Collins, Renata Moore, they do it all, working many nights and Like Gary Gerson, I was in my freshman Suzanna Spring, John Steiner, BA’02, Lisa A. DuBois weekends. And they must keep reinventing year at Vanderbilt in 1943 and wanted to play. Keith Wood themselves, finding ways to make the same Lisa A. DuBois has been a freelance writer since 1985 and has penned stories Also like Gary I was quite small, about 5- Photographers campus and the same buildings look fresh. for newspapers, magazines, radio and video. She received a bachelor’s degree foot-8 and 140 pounds. Due to the limited Neil Brake I asked Steve Green, who schedules photo from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master’s degree number of male students on campus because Daniel Dubois shoots and also photographs for Vanderbilt, in biomedical communications from University of Texas Southwestern Med- of the war, I was readily accepted. Color Correction and Retouching how many shoots their office does annually. ical Center in Dallas. She recently completed a history of the founding of the Monroe During scrimmage each day it was the job Julie Turner “Last year it was more than 1,800,” he said. Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, More Than a Place, which is currently at press. of the left guard and the left tackle (each “This year we’ll probably reach 2,000.” Vanderbilt Magazine Advisory Board about 200 pounds) to block me out. They Roy Blount Jr., BA’63 Frye Gaillard Sometimes I tag along with Daniel or Neil accomplished this without much strain. Caneel Cotton, BA’88 Frye Gaillard, BA’68, is writer-in-residence at the University of South Alabama. when they’re shooting. Here are three things Terry Eastland, BA’71 Each day during the football season of The author of 19 books, he began his career as a newspaper reporter writing I’ve learned about taking photos: N E E 1943, Fred Russell, ’27, of the Nashville Ban- Robert Early, BA’71, MDiv’76 R G about the Civil Rights Movement. He was a reporter and editor for The Char- 1. You want spontaneity in a photo. But not E V Sam Feist, BA’91 Dubois and Brake E ner wrote an article about one of the play- T too much spontaneity. Last spring when Daniel S Frye Gaillard Jr., BA’68 lotte Observer. He also was founding editor of the Novello Festival Press in ers. I knew my time would come, but I didn’t shot a Vanderbilt Magazine cover image of alumnus Brian Reames, BA’87, involving a Janice Miller Greenberg, BS’80 Charlotte, a national award-winning literary publishing company. know what he would say because I was the G. Marc Hamburger, BA’64 wienie roast over a fire of rival-school souvenirs, a gust of wind nearly set greater Pegram, smallest and the slowest man on the team. Wendell Rawls Jr., BA’70 Jennie Floyd Tenn., ablaze. Mr. Russell was most generous. He com- Edward Schumacher Matos, BA’68 Jennie Floyd, EMBA’92, received her bachelor’s degree in business at the Univer- 2. College students are all photogenic—men and women alike. I don’t know whether Michael Schoenfeld mented that “if everyone tried as hard as sity of Alabama. Employers during her 20-year business career included AT&T, this is a universal truth or something peculiar to Vanderbilt. Maybe it’s the modern David James, the team would do just fine.” Advertisers interested in purchasing ad space in Vander- BellSouth, Nortel Networks, Telcordia Consulting and the Aberdeen Group. miracles of orthodontia and dermatology. bilt Magazine should contact Phillip Tucker, advertising I am most appreciative of having had the manager, at [email protected] or 615/322-3989. Since her retirement in 2000, Floyd has pursued a second career in the arts. In 3. Researchers like to demonstrate that their work is a team effort by pulling opportunity to be a part of the last unde- Vanderbilt Magazine is published quarterly by Vander- addition to being a working actress, she is a singer/songwriter with one CD released (Har- everyone remotely associated with their labs into the photo. Take the group photo. Then bilt University from editorial and business offices at feated and untied Vanderbilt football team. 2100 West End Ave., Suite 820, Nashville, TN 37203. Phone: wood Productions) and is a published poet/essayist for which she has won several awards. take the photo you need. Dr. David H. James, BA’48, MD’51 615/322-2601. E-mail: [email protected]. She lives with her husband and pug in the waterfront community of Foster City, on the west Finally, here’s something I learned from a freelance photographer whom Vander- Fax: 615/343-8547. Please send address corrections to Gift West Memphis, Ark. Records Office,Vanderbilt University,VU Station B 357727, side of the San Francisco Bay. bilt Magazine no longer employs: Instructing a woman to “lick your lips, baby,”while 2301 Vanderbilt Place, Nashville, TN 37235-7703. apparently a tried-and-true technique when photographing on Nashville’s Music Row, Opinions expressed in Vanderbilt Magazine are those of Remembrance of Pipsqueaks Past the individual authors and do not necessarily reflect the Additional Contributors: Carole Bartoo, Joan Brasher, Doug Campbell, Kate Carney, works less well when the subject is a chaired Vanderbilt professor. The Fall 2006 issue is full of examples views of the Magazine or the University administration. Clinton Colmenares, Vivian F. Cooper, John Egan, Fredrick Hilliard, Elizabeth Latt, Jane Thanks, Neil and Daniel. 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